Places Edited by Kerry Wolfe

An arresting temple full of mosaics as colorful as the politician they memorialize.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

This secret facility trained seals for the Swedish navy during the Second World War.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

This architectural oddity is an oasis of green on the outskirts of Valencia.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

These ruins are all that remain of Tortosa’s lost coal gas manufacturing industry.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This amazing piece of modern art honors the hundreds of fishermen killed during Cambrils' "year of misfortunes."

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

The tower in this 1,000-year-old mud-brick village seems to vibrate for no apparent reason.

This abandoned orphanage-turned-asylum witnessed a terrible chapter in Québec's history.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.